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It's still bare-bones by most standards, but Notepad has evolved a lot recently.

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

A spell checker is pretty useless. It's not a word processor. I just want to very quickly open a text file and perhaps make a small edit. I would usually use it for config files.

Syntax highlighting for xml, JSON, yaml and CSV would be a much more useful feature. gEdit on gnome really nails the lightweight but useable text editor.

Also, would it kill them to use a rolling buffer instead of loading and rendering an entire 500MB file before rendering the first 30 lines on screen?

People say "just use [editor]", but it's no good when you're configuring someone else's prod environment 7 proxies deep, and all you can use is notepad.

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah big booooo here. They already have wordpad with this, and surprise surprise noone uses that shit.

[–] pycorax@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 2 points 4 months ago

No way!!! It was the only way to render RTF/Word , without word!